Dreams

I have been thinking a lot about dreams lately.  When I was younger, I brought dreams back from my sleeping time all the time but some time ago, and I can not quite remember when, I stopped remembering dreams.  I tried any number of 'fixes' that I read about but nothing seemed to help so I resigned myself to falling into oblivion each night and went on.  After all, I had a whole daytime life to live. 

Still, I felt vaguely jealous whenever someone told me about the ‘weird dream' that they had the night before.  I remembered dreaming and some of the best spiritual guidance (and most puzzling) I ever received came in dreams.  I could not pretend that I understood my dreams but, if I spent enough time with them, some nugget of insight almost always came forth.  My dreams were a rich source of journalling fodder.

Just to add to my dream lust, every now and again, I would bring back a dream or, more likely, some fragment of a dream.  Hope would spark in me that the long drought was over but then the oblivious nights would begin again - immediately - and I would go back to dreaming of having dreams.  

For some reason that I can not explain, that seems to have changed over the weekend.  I have had dreams that I brought back to consciousness three of the the past five nights and I was aware, on the nights when I did not recall a dream, that I was dreaming.  At least one of those dreams seems to have a real message for me and I have been sitting with it for a couple of days.  Mostly though, I am just happy to have a nightscape back.  

As I said, I have no idea what provoked this change.  Stacey has been working intently with her dreams as per our teacher’s instruction and that may have something do with it.   I have been re-reading a Tom Cowan book about core shamanism as a spiritual practice and the presence of that energy could certainly have something to do with my renewed night rambles.  It could simply be that I have arrived in a place on the path where I have a need to access that information.  

Whatever the cause, I am just happy to be getting those night time messages again.  Sure, most dreams are simply your consciousness downloading from the day but even those dreams are useful monitors of your subconscious.  Occasionally though, one has a dream that is a very clear message from . . . elsewhere.  Spirit, God, the spirits, whatever designation you wish to use.  Those clear, life like dreams are the ones that I really missed and I have been fortunate enough to have one in this interlude.  

So, if you are one of those people, like Stacey, who dreams regularly, enjoy it and pay attention.  You never know when that gift might be denied you for a while.  For the most part, dreams are something to be grateful for.  Listen to them, work with them and be happy you have them.